My freshman year is officially at an end, and so it seems only fitting to review this past year through the eternal words of William Shakespeare. As with most plays about love and death and reckless anger and more death, the following words may seem slightly over-dramatized or hopelessly romantic or depressing.
First Semester:
1. First Day of Welcome Weekend:
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
2. When you see your empty dorm room with the squeaky bedframe:
"I do desire we may be better strangers."
3. When you get your first real assignment:
"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me."
4. When your best friend aces the test you failed:"Et tu, Brute?"
5. When revenge and reckless anger seem like the best option:
"For a charm of powerful trouble, / Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. / Double, double toil and trouble; / Fire burn, and caldron bubble.”
6. When said anger fails:
"I burn, I pine, I perish."
7. When it's three in the morning before the biggest assignment is due:
"I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety." (But instead of ale, mostly you just mean the modern equivalent of coffee.)
8. When you take your hardest and last final:
"Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day."
Second Semester:
1. When second semester starts with a strange amount of optimism:
"Our doubts are traitors, / And make us lose the good we oft might win, / By fearing to attempt."
2. When you get an A on the first assignment:
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
3. When you get your midterm paper rubric:
4. When a classmate comes to you for advice and all you have to say is super cliche:
"All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely players..."
5. When you enter the last week of school:
“Some are born great, others achieve greatness.”
6. When you are trying to write your final paper:
7. When you say goodbye to everyone inlcuding your faithful dorm room:
"Parting is such sweet sorrow."
8. When you drive away from campus:
"All's well that ends well.”
